24-03-2004 07:07									#31
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Nice graphs indeed!

	24-03-2004 08:42									#32
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Can we send Jammo an Apolyton hat or something?

	24-03-2004 09:17									#33
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Congratulations Mark and Dan!



Thanks for all your hard work and this excellent site!

The counter stands at 50,014 when I post this... and it's still growing... Thanks a lot!


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And thanks to all the moderators who have kept this place safe from iniquity: Ming,MtG,rah,MLeonard,etc.

And all the posters for posting here!

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and good work with the lists Locutus!

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	24-03-2004 13:47									#34
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May I partake in the pleasure of the 50K dance

Jammmo should be proud of himself

-Jam

	24-03-2004 15:41									#35
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It's usually around this time that somemone awkward points out it's stats on active members that are most interesting.

IIRC last time Locutus pre-empted me those people and included some in his lists.

	24-03-2004 16:07									#36
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* Unspeakable Horror agrees with DanQ

@GF

	24-03-2004 16:47									#37
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Yeah! Free stuff for Jammmo!

(well, until someone notices that he's a DL of Jamski)

	24-03-2004 17:06									#38
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In what way exactly are the members counted anyway?

On the one hand, Jammmo doesn't have userid 50,000 (he's 50299) so you'd think there are actually more than 50,000 members. On the other hand, if you check the memberlist, it only lists some 43,000 members. That may not include banned users or so, but you can't tell me there are 7000 banned members. So what is really the significance of this number when the actual figures are so far off?

	24-03-2004 17:12									#39
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Thanks all for the kind words

DanQ,

Thanks, took quite a while to compile it too (especially for the last ~1.5 years since you didn't release a 'year in headlines' feature at the 5th birthday like you did for all previous birthdays). That's why I decided to post it: I went through all that trouble a couple of months ago, would've been a pity to just throw away because it was too long to be remotely useful

quote: I would add the following two to the 'full' index:

Well, I said it was only a selection I tried to focus on events that might affect visitor numbers/forum activity, for which both events you list definitely qualify.

The MoO3 preview series I didn't include since, important as it was, it's in the end just one of a whole series of outstanding (p)reviews of which I only mentioned the first to keep list short. But since I know how important it is to you, I guess can make an exception here (I guess one could easily argue this one deserves special mention due to its exclusive nature).

I'm surprised to find the Mo) Beta contest wasn't on my list already! I must have overlooked it...

quote: IIRC last time Locutus pre-empted me those people and included some in his lists.

Methinks you should look closer before you start accusing me of neglegence

	24-03-2004 17:24									#40
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The 299 difference in userid is due to deletion of certain accounts, that's well known. The 7,000 difference with the memberlist I can't explain offhand either.

But I think these milestones simply symbolise the growth of Apolyton -- it's really irrelevant if you celebrate at 43,000 members or at 50,000 or at 32,768 (= 100,000 with the octal notation, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 binary ), you celebrate the growth of Apolyton. 50,000 is a nice round number, how accurate it is doesn't really matter at that much.

Edit: 32,768 is not 10,000 but 100,000 octal of course

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	24-03-2004 19:14									#41
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congrats to Mark and Dan

	24-03-2004 21:16									#42
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Nice stats


And congrats on the 50,000

	24-03-2004 21:18									#43
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Awesome!!!!!

	24-03-2004 22:35									#44
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Whooo!

	24-03-2004 23:22									#45
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there are only 761 banned accounts

the 6.5k accounts that dont appear on the memberlist are mostly accounts that were not activated or are disabled as the user changed the email address but didnt confirm it

	24-03-2004 23:56									#46
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C'mon, Jammmo, what do you have to say for yourself? Don't be afraid. Post in this thread! I assure you no one will compare IP numbers.

Gatekeeper

	25-03-2004 04:47									#47
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Jamski has had a lot of time on his hands recently......

	25-03-2004 05:19									#48
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quote: Originally posted by Locutus DanQ, Thanks, took quite a while to compile it too (especially for the last ~1.5 years since you didn't release a 'year in headlines' feature at the 5th birthday like you did for all previous birthdays). That's why I decided to post it: I went through all that trouble a couple of months ago, would've been a pity to just throw away because it was too long to be remotely useful

The "Year in Headlines" section of recent birthday features was not dropped by choice but rather of practicality: no time to compile them.

We're just over four months away before Apolyton's sixth birthday arrives. Would you be willing to revive the page for this time around? You have already taken care of a sizable portion of it, in fact, and retroactive inclusions may also be considered especially considering you have already gathered that data. Whatever your answer, please send it to me as a PM...

Oh, the suspense...

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	26-03-2004 01:36									#49
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Belated cheers from myself too .

Now this seems like a great number. Looking back at the charts, I can't believe that Civ 3 was out just a bit over a year after I registered.

The growth rate seems very good now, still going to be strong, though nothing is really happening. RoN and GalCiv expansions won't lead too many people here, and Civ4 at this point is something that few know about.

I remember new faces in the CtP forums after the source release though .

	26-03-2004 03:25									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Solver The growth rate seems very good now, still going to be strong, though nothing is really happening. RoN and GalCiv expansions won't lead too many people here, and Civ4 at this point is something that few know about.

Actually, I was quite surprised one of my colleagues at work (who isn't really *that* big a Civ fan, or even a gamer) asked me about Civ4 earlier this week. So apparently the news *did* slip through to the outside world.

(Yes, pretty much everyone who knows me knows I 'work' at a Civ site )

quote: I remember new faces in the CtP forums after the source release though .

Well, only two or three who actually stuck around. Which isn't much more than the usual flow through. Though there were quite a few some old posters who returned though.

	26-03-2004 04:07									#51
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great to achieve 50,000 of which 45,000 are prob DL but they are well hidden DLs so we can count them !!!!!

pity so few are actually active psoters, imagine how busy this place would be with 50,000 posters on every day !!!!!!

	26-03-2004 04:38									#52
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If you think it twice, that could mean actually more waiting in the server loads than before! . (in other words, a crowed apolyton would comsume a lot of bandwidth)

That's scary

	26-03-2004 04:43									#53
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longer laods slower server, means more ads to pay for upgrades.... yes very scary .....

	26-03-2004 05:53									#54
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quote: Originally posted by Doc It's usually around this time that somemone awkward points out it's stats on active members that are most interesting.

I guess it's time to put myself back on active member status.

Seems like the last time I was here 35000 was the milestone.

Congratuations.

	26-03-2004 06:52									#55
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quote: Originally posted by Rasputin longer laods slower server, means more ads to pay for upgrades.... yes very scary .....

Umm....
I would be interested to know how it pays off.
If you need a bigger server due to posting, then surely you can get more for your ad's and links?
Is there a point after which it becomes uneconomical to have more posters or is bigger better?

	11-04-2004 17:37									#56
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WOW! over 50000 members. didn't realise Apolyton had gotten that big. remember back in the day when I was like 4600th member.

	12-04-2004 05:49									#57
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quote: there are only 761 banned accounts

I wonder what the growth rate of the Poly dungeon has been.

	12-04-2004 06:38									#58
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Congratulations

	12-04-2004 14:08									#59
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This thread is so last month.

	12-04-2004 14:47									#60
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I guess that fewer milestone threads means these get milked more.